Conspiring

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

In the last week, I had one of the most bizarre experiences I ever had on Facebook. Bear with me. I speak advisedly.

Yes, in that site which is known for being like the comment section of most crazy blogs, this one interaction took the cake, with a side of ice-cream and a cherry on top.

Someone I’d never heard of before or since, and with whom I don’t remember having a single interaction anywhere, left a post on my timeline out of the blue to say that though I’m a deranged conspiracy theorist, and he doesn’t agree with anything I say he supports my right to broadcast these.

My immediate reaction was to inform him that if he disagrees with everything I say, then he’s a communist and therefore beneath contempt. I also pointed out that anything I say happened or is happening doesn’t need a conspiracy, a prospiracy — an uncoordinated group of people each doing what he/she thinks should be done for “the cause” would suffice.

But then I spent hours wracking my brain, wondering if I’ve ever on this blog — or at instapundit — propounded a conspiracy theory. I mean, other than jokingly suggesting all the democrat leaders are aliens.

And I literally can’t remember a single one. Because, you know, conspiracy theories require they not be proven true. And while in early 2020 I spent a lot of time pointing out that Covid-19 was AT WORST a very bad flu — and also that masks didn’t work, etc — as we know, I was right. The death rate will never be debullshitted (totally a word) due to perverse incentives to attribute everything to C-19 but the excess mortality worldwide was negligible.

And also, if it were so terrible, everyone at the Diamond Princess (ancient and with health issues) would have died; all our homeless would have died; the government would actually be testing the illegals pouring over the border for Covid-19 and they wouldn’t have needed to try to mandate that everyone take a vaccine. People would be fighting for the chance.

I said masks and social distancing and all the bullshit didn’t work or make any difference. Looks at Sweden. And I was right.

Was it a conspiracy? Yeah, I kind of think it was, recruiting that world-brain Fauci and one of his paid-for creations. But like most conspiracies, it didn’t do what they wanted, and got out of hand in unexpected ways.

What did they want to do? Crash the economy and have a bludgeon to beat Trump with in 2020. I only say this because the usual idiots were clamoring for a way to “wreck the economy” all too publicly just at the end of 19. Is it a conspiracy theory, if they tell us?

I think the idea was the two weeks would crash the economy, they’d win the election, win. But then things spun out of control, because their lies took a life of their own. It wasn’t America locked down, it was the world. They didn’t mind that much, since to them the world doesn’t really exist except as a way to spend vacations. But it just kept spiraling, and it allowed them to fraud 2020 in style, but people were mad they needed to dismount (and pay back the pharmaceutical companies) and voila, mandates for vaccine.

Note I don’t say the vaccines were supposed to have horrible effects. I don’t think they were. Though some people in the cogs might have known all vaccines of that type had horrible effects. But they just wanted to get off the tiger and not be eaten. And as G-d is their witness, they really thought that turkeys could fly they truly thought the vax would work. Mostly because science is a sort of magical incantation for all these lefty politicians.

Again, I don’t think you can call it a conspiracy theory, when pretty much it happened all along the line. The mechanisms behind it are speculative, and yet there it is.

Oh, the 2020 election being stolen is also not a conspiracy theory. Can’t be, after they published an article in time bragging about how they “fortified” it. And when we all saw the last minute fraud in front of G-d and everyone who was awake. Oh, sure, there’s a chance it wasn’t fraud. To quote my friend Dave Freer in another context: about the same chance that a coin tossed in the air will land not on one side, not on the other, not on edge, but as a yellow, fluffy duckling.

Absent that look at their governing. No government hates their own people so much if they were actually voted in. Here’s another not a conspiracy theory.

And the psychology of the Biden “win” is all wrong too. They didn’t act like they needed to campaign. They didn’t care if he didn’t campaign. Or if their promises amounted to “we will raise your taxes.” Because they had it in the bag to, as Biden put it the largest and most diverse network of fraud. (I am alluding more than quoting.) And before you tell me Biden is nuts and doesn’t know what he says, you’d best check his firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was trying to investigate Burisma. Because he did. And bragged about it. Biden’s problem is more that he runs at the mouth, rather than making up that sort of thing. (Now, Cornpop and the many ways his son supposedly died? that’s different. That’s not him bragging of his awesome POWER.)

I also did say that all the Russian bullshit around Trump was just bullshit. And it was. Made up by the Hilary Clinton campaign, and pretty much bullshit all the way. As anyone with half a brain could tell.

So, conspiracy theories? Well, seeing the truth a little before other people gets you called that. But since they were proven, I’m fresh out of conspiracies. And note for all of these except the incredibly dirty dealings of the Biden family, prospiracies suffice. I.e. people who want to be invited to the next cocktail party, or to be with the “smart people” and who therefore did what they thought they had to do, to advance the cause.

I think the “conspiracy theory” cri de coeur which has become the latest go-to of the left, (and some of the right) after “racist” stopped working is a manifestation of the desire to go back to “normal”

At least on the right, it is a strong desire to believe the left isn’t unhinged mostly communists, but normal people who are deluded. As we thought, you know, seven years ago.

If you’re on the right, I regret to tell you that ship has sailed. Don’t go so far on your quest for what you were sure was true and good and proper that — as a friend put it about another friend — you find yourself five ranks in, with blood on your hands, before you realize your own side has a point.

(And can we stop with silliness about Trump, please? Whether you wanted him or not — I’d be okay with someone else, but I’m not sure who. Rand Paul, maybe. I never gave it much thought because I knew it was impossible on name recognition alone — can you stop asking where Melania is, or other stupidity? Melania is staying out of it. Because after what they’ve done to try to “get” him, he’s keeping his family out of it. Frankly, having seen the path this is taking, in history, I’d already have sent them abroad. Except there’s nowhere safe, so. And the other bizarre stupidity is even dumber.)

Yes, I know. Once the third box is rigged, we’re out of luck for any path we’d like to take. But you know what’s worse than that? Telling yourself fairy tales and going to sleep on the edge of the abyss.

Another friend suggested that 9/11 should be a day of preparation and training for disaster. She’s not wrong. But let’s make it every day we have left, okay?

The economy is weird, politics is bizarre, our so called government is at war with us, and it’s time to pull up your pants and prepare, prepare, prepare.

Fairy tales won’t save you.

If you’re on the right, your belief that anything against the narrative is a “conspiracy theory” is self-soothing. And you know if you self-soothe too much, you’ll go blind, or grow hair on your palms or something.

The truth is that the left is out of ideas, out of beliefs, and out of time.

Yes, we know all your professors and other “smart people” told you that your cause would eventually win because you were with the “arrow of history.” If history shows an arrow, it’s been altered to be propaganda.

But you know what history does show? That the side that is losing and has no hope always turns against freedom of speech. So, in the sixties when the left still had hope, and still thought the Soviet Union would eventually win, they were all for the first amendment.

That has of course gone sour, and they now really want you to shut up. Our (unfriendly) government has been censoring us in defiance of our Constitution. And is appealing the judgement against them, to get to do it again, bigger, harder, and with more depth. (They’ve already gone blind.)

In these circumstances, the left’s belief in the arrow of history is touching. Like the faith of a blind child that those around him are all beautiful.

I recommend being very careful. History doesn’t have arrows, but the people around you are starting to get very pointed, and your actions are under scrutiny. These things never end well for the go-along sheep who just want to believe. And who will commit horrific crimes in their attempt to continue believing. We recommend you study the horrific history around the fall of Nazi Germany. Whatever you were told, THAT socialist regime has a lot more in common with your side than ours.

And for anyone believing I’m a conspiracy theorist: I wish. I wish most of this stuff, when it clicks in my brain, ended up being wrong.

Do you think I like being Cassandra? Like Heinlein I believe she didn’t get half the kicking around she deserved.

Even in a normal time, when people in power haven’t started scrambling in mad ways they think will grant them power, seeing them for what they are is disquieting.

Now it’s downright frightening. And is going to keep getting more so.

All the same, be not afraid.

In the end we win, they lose.

That’s all.

239 thoughts on “Conspiring”

  1. I’m beginning to see conspiracies in our politics the last few years and I don’t even consider myself a conspiracy theorist. For me it’s just “noticing”.

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    3. President “Most Transparent Administration Ever” had so much crap going on that was quite openly known about on the right but completely ignored on the left that at times I felt as if I literally had to remind myself that I was not a tinfoil hat wearer.

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          1. Indeed that particular technique is unique to a single individual (or perhaps collective of individuals). That tells us who is really pulling the strings on the meat puppet that is our Turnip in Chief ( even if he and Edith II aka Jill don’t realize it). How the heck did our politics get this frickin’ byzantine? I mean this looks like crap out of Late Dynasty China or Imperial Russia or War of the Roses period England.

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              1. Essentially we are seeing Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy played out over a century. That seems like an accurate analysis.

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      1. Keep in mind they’re the ones in psychological trouble. Holding on to normal against all reason.
        Pity them a little. And know that when they’re forced to see, it will be terrible.

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        1. Yeah, now its doing this weird double-login thing, has a completely different comment screen, big fun.

          I had this big comment written out, tried with three different browsers to post it, and the damn thing ate it. I’ll see about re-writing later, if this comment actually makes it through.

          Incompetent bastards [grumble, spit, kick]

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  2. We need a whole new batch of conspiracy theories, because all the old ones have come true!

    Also, you were quoting. Here is what Candidate Joe Biden announced to the world in August 2020:

    “We have assembled the most extensive, comprehensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

    Of course, we didn’t hear the backstage part afterwards: “What do you mean, I wasn’t supposed to say that?”

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  4. The incompetence of these commies is just astounding, isn’t it? If they’d had a shred of ability, they’d have collected golden egg after golden egg from our booming country. They could have partied on their yachts and enjoyed fabulous meals in their mansions, and never bothered the Americans who just wanted to live their lives, worship in peace, and raise their kids.

    Instead, they decided to go full commie. (Never go full commie). And they’re going to bring it all down around their heads. And we’re going to take care of things and walk away, dusting our hands, and with a sad shake of our heads, get back to living our lives. Stupid commies.

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    2. Funnily enough, the new comment box has actually fixed the problem I’d been having before, where I wasn’t tracking as being logged in and I had to repeatedly type in my username and password for every comment. Now it’s actually tracking my login status correctly.

      Shrug. Not gonna try and debug WordPress’s code for them. 1) They’re not paying me to do it, and 2) it’s PHP. Shudder. No desire to touch PHP code again. The monthly paycheck would need to reach six figures, per month, before I considered the money to be worth the aggravation.

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      1. Yeah I think I’d fix ancient COBOL or FORTRAN 66 code before I’d want to fiddle with crufty kludged up PHP (or even well written PHP). I feel vaguely sympathetic to whatever poor bastards try to maintain WP. To their idiot management (but that is redundant) I am far less sympathetic…

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          1. To my shame I have written COBOL to test an interface with GKS a graphics library as part of my first job. Only on VAX/VMS in the early 80’s could Cobol (or Lisp or APL or ADA) call C code and hope to actually work… I’ve also written a Fortran Pretty printer in Fortran 66 (well Fortran IV actually) as an intern, lordy doing that with Hollerith strings and only Arithmetic If was a nightmare… But Either would be preferable to PHP.

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              1. The Reader remembers. He wonders how many people know that Windows NT was the second operating system Microsoft ‘liberated’. When DEC wouldn’t port VMS to the Intel platform, its architects all went to work for Microsoft. They recreated it as NT 3.51 very quickly.

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                2. Actually its stranger than that. Dave Cutler (who worked on RSX and was a major architect of VAX/VMS) was working on a RISC hardware program called Prism. It was a predecessor to Alpha and had some really excellent ideas (virtualization of the device interfaces being the big one I remember) that were ahead of their time. Cutler worked on heading the team for the OS for it called Mica. It was a microkernel architecture on which you could easily layer other OS (VMS, DEC Unix, Mica Native, possibly others). Problem was the hardware was taking way too long, SUN, HP, and a startup called SGI were taking the workstation market, period Micro Vaxen couldn’t keep up for the technical side of things where workstations shined. Some senior VP somewhere decided that a quicker solution was needed and brought in MIPS 3000 chips. Cutler got in a pissing contest with said VP AND managed to tick off Ken Olsen (not easy as Cutler had previously been one of Ken’s fair haired boys) so Dave loses the fight and Prism (and Mica) are ultimately canceled. The physical site where this work (Software) was being done was DEC Seattle referred to colloquially as DECWet. Dave Cutler goes down the street to Microsoft and peddles some of his Microkernel concepts to them. Dave and a fair hunk of decent engineers from Mica decamp to Microsoft and start working on early Windows NT (sometimes called WNT which oddly enough bears the same resemblance to VMS as HAL does to IBM, Rumors are Cutler liked this joke as WNT was one plussing VMS). Having worked at the driver level in VMS (4.0, 5.0 and a smidge in 6.0) and Windows NT (3.5, 3.51, 4.0 and Windows 2000 on Alpha) there are some very interesting similarities VMS and WNT shared in their general techniques.

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              2. I worked on it (and various Digital UNIX implementations) for a large part of my career working for Digital in the 80’s and beyond. Amazingly it still survives running on Intel hardware though its use is rather limited. Last time I used it was likely 25+ years ago with V7 on Alpha systems.

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      4. I don’t login (no WP account) or link to FB. I use the email option, then select “email comments” (current release/format). Beyond the visual change, other changes are no longer have to “verify” I really meant to follow the discussion, and comments aren’t showing up as fast (none from “Conspiring” at all for hours (well after I went to bed). Might have been that the very first comment’s request didn’t take, or switched off (noticed that happened and I know I reset it). The “reply” button was a PIA to click, once it turned on, too.

        1) They’re not paying me to do it, and 2) it’s PHP.
        ……………..

        (1) Can relate.
        (2) Never played in PHP. At this point I don’t want to learn. I am done coding. (Boy are those comments when I first started coding I never thought I’d say or write.)

        Shudder. No desire to touch PHP code again. The monthly paycheck would need to reach six figures, per month, before I considered the money to be worth the aggravation.
        …………………

        Yes. A rabbit hole I have no desire to go into either. I am actually glad my last job never called me to consult and work on client code. They offered me an hourly rate. I said fine, but it would be an hourly rate, and purely hours worked. I would absolutely not give them a max hourly bid. No matter how often it came back they’d get billed more, and I would track it. “But you can make more money biding projects!” Nope. Nope. Nope. And H3ll Nope. 1) I know their clients (after 12 years) and how “clear” specifications always were (JTBC sarcasm). 2) 35 years in the industry over (if I count every early job before second degree) 6 employers dealing with internal and external clients? H3ll No.

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        1. Appears, based on experience with this blog article, that the “email option” change, only gives me comments replied to my particular comments, not all comments to the blog article. That is a major functional change. Will try to see if creating a login will change that option (just another login that I have to keep track of, sigh). But also will require changing my singular login letter to 4 chars+. (Okay, whining now.) Thus:

          dep729 formally known as d.

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      1. “Conspiracy theory” just means “too horrible to contemplate”.

        The postmodern BS of belief defining reality has infected society, especially the normies who just want to go along get along.

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            1. We come closer every day, it seems. Many dictators lose their heads when those they depend upon to enforce their dictates melt away. (I am tempted to say all, as I can’t dredge up a historical example offhand where that was not the case.)

              Hundreds of well-armed people in Old Town Albuquerque. Local and State police just standing around (now, mind, they have been indoctrinated to do so, but with Leftist “peaceful protestors,” not Patriots). The propaganda media actually howling about real Constitutional violations. Her own Attorney General refusing to enter a court of law to defend her actions.

              One wonders what would have happened (or not happened) if the order had been handed down for Santa Fe – and the citizens assembled in front of the State House, or the Governor’s Mansion.

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              1. The Leftists are PISSED that the idiot governor of New Mexico jumped the gun on their inevitable “public health crisis” gun grab. Even David Hogg knows this not only took off the mask but burned it and showed the scowling face of “we’re gonna disarm you then we’re gonna kill you”. One of the biggest political mistakes in decades.

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                1. As I said elswhere the lefties are mad at the governor ONLY because she said the quiet part out loud. And yeah the local constable seems to be holding back ONLY because the took away the qualified immunity. Love the unintended consequences. In the words of Nelson Muntz “Ha, Ha!” .

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                1. If anything, their attempts at disarming have had the opposite effect. Every. Single. Time. And it’s not just the conservatives that start buying up anything that goes “bang,” their own side (the ones closer to the center,) have been buying big time.

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              3. “depend upon to enforce their dictates melt away.”
                Among the many useful things John Ringo has taught me “Don’t give an order you know won’t be obeyed.” is one of the most useful.

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                  1. 🎵 ROWSDOWER SAVES US AND SAVEEEES ALL THE WORLD! 🎶
                    Sorry, at your comment I immediately flashed back Mystery Science Theater’s infamously Canadian bad movie “The Final Sacrifice” and now I can’t get the image of that be-mulleted, chunky, backwoods, drifter brutally killing Justin Trudeau out my head. And my mother is asking why I’ve been giggling for ten minutes straight.

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                2. Consider how much of the original Geneva convention boiled down to “See what the Canadians did? Yeah, don’t do that.”

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            3. “It’s fine it’s fine, it’s fine, then Merry Christmas Mr. Ceaușescu .” This quote in now mine, I am stealing it, I am making it my own and I will use it everywhere at the slightest opportunity without shame. If Dems can steal anything they like I should be able to as well.

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            4. (visualizes the battle before the gates of Mordor from the movie, queues up “The Mob Rules”)

              “Its fine.”

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              1. Well then those hobbits all better hurry the heck up getting the Ring to the Crack of Doom or all our asses will be well and truly in a sling…

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  8. Build Islands of sanity with your friends and neighbors. From all those Islands we can rebuild.
    E Pluribus Unum.

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  12. The sad thing is that I have to disagree with you on some very important points.

    There was a previous attempt at creating an mRNA vaccine pre-COVID for SARS-COV-1 (the bird flu). That attempt ended in disaster when all of the test animals developed a hyperenergized immune reaction on being re-exposed to the virus–and died. (There were white papers and articles about this that were searchable at the beginning of 2021. It’s harder to get to them now.)

    The NIH actually had to withdraw that vaccine from the testing process because they had NO results that they could cherry-pick and otherwise manipulate into looking less alarmingly fatal. I don’t know of any other vaccine that they’ve withdrawn like that.

    So; they knew that this was a very bad idea to push an mRNA vaccine. They created it anyway and they lied to Trump and the general public about its safety, and they TOTALLY SKIPPED the animal testing phase because they knew that people who had been paying attention were publishing their tremendous failure from the first attempt.

    To avoid further adverse publicity, they also skipped the standard expected review process for vaccines as well. ACIP rubberstamps everything they’re handed to approve anyway, which raises the question of why.

    ACIP board members are required to publish their professional conflicts of interest, and–all of them are totally, thoroughly, as corruptly conflicted by the pharmaceutical industry as it is possible for anyone in public service to be. The lists of their extreme conflicts of interest are varied and long! But they STILL weren’t permitted to convene and consider whether these shots would be recommended for public use.

    And the only possible reason for that was because someone (probably Fauci) was afraid that they’d have a collective crisis of conscience.

    And then the medical establishment had the amazing hubris to inject the first few people live on television. This led to that incredible footage of a nurse collapsing (and probably dying) immediately after her shot. That footage was all over Facebook–and then–it wasn’t. And we weren’t allowed to share it or talk of it ever again.

    But–here’s the thing: it’s what I expected to happen. It’s what many other people who knew this history also expected to happen. We were shocked at HOW FAST she keeled over, right there in front of the camera, but not that she died, nor that anyone else was injured by the shots or died, nor that the death toll post shots from ALL CAUSES is now approaching 50%.

    If you’d been reading what I had to say on Facebook in the months leading up to COVID, you would have heard me say that they were going to try to kill us. That they had a plan and that it is of LONG STANDING. When I explained where I’d heard of it and what it was, I was a bit surprised to have multiple friends corroborate. Mostly, smart well-read people don’t like to stick their necks out on this stuff that’s hard for the average Jill or Joe to look in the eye and accept.

    I had learned that there had been confidential meetings with military planners that people in the medical field got invited to beginning in the 1990s under Bill Clinton. The plan’s broadest strokes were that they were going to turn the U.S. into a killing field, and as they killed us off, they’d bring in people from elsewhere in the world and kill them off too. They wanted (still do) to take out billions of the current total world population, leaving only those (greatly reduced) groups that are shown to be most controllable via abuse and starvation, like the Koreans and Chinese.

    Illegal immigration flooding across our southern border isn’t just a “pad the votes and get rich quick” scheme: it’s a hideous attempt to hide the decimation of the actual American population via abortion and other means, and lull us into a false complacency. It’s creating a steady influx of new victims too.

    With COVID, as you say, things got out of hand–but I think you’re wrong about how. I don’t believe that Fauci, the diabolical torturer and murderer of AIDS orphans and helpless beagle puppies, ever really panicks. He’s far too insulated from the consequences of his actions for that. I believe that he and others in cahoots with him saw a golden opportunity to decimate populations worldwide using the shots, and to sterilize men and women of childbearing age. And they took it.

    How I first learned about all of this: my naturopath (now retired) attended one of those confidential meetings. He didn’t like what he heard and started warning his patients. He warned me about six or seven years ago.

    He wasn’t the only one spreading the word. There has been retaliation: hit men have been taking out wholistic medical practitioners. The death toll from suspicious deaths is now more than 100 natural health practitioners, and in almost all cases, NO ONE has been arrested or charged, or held accountable.

    So, Sarah, yes: they really, genuinely, absolutely DO want to kill us all, and they won’t stop until either they’re dead or WE are. The sooner that those who are capable of stopping them get this through their heads, the better for all of us.

    And you’re right: living in denial isn’t going to get anyone anywhere good at all. No one is safe from them. Not even their allies and supporters today or their allies and supporters tomorrow. If you want cold hard proof of that, Lahaina voted Democrat and they were looking forward to becoming a “smart city.” I don’t think they understood what that required or that it sealed their fate.

    The only thing that matters to the people behind this is watching the death toll rise.

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    1. If you read what I wrote, I think I pointed out all previous MRNA vaccines were nightmares.
      I just don’t think they are THAT good as to plot to kill us all. they just don’t care if we all die.

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      1. They may not be. What about the Ones giving them ideas? I still remain convinced, although there is not much to back me up, that there is a deeper, darker, dimension to all of this.

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        1. You’d be right to think that. This is just my personal belief, but if Screwtape’s boss sat down and wrote a political, er, Manifesto, it would surely look like some BS spouted by a lazy, entitled jerkface who expected others to fund his lifestyle (while not caring what happened to his wife and kids.)

          If you just imagine little demons whispering in all the wrong ears for the next century and a half, everything falls into place.

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        3. Almost for sure. The thing to remember though is that the state of science is such they couldn’t have planned what the vaccine did. They could guess, but not PLAN. this is important.

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          1. I’m not sure that we really need to know which. Malice, and/or stupendous incompetence, we have seen enough to avoid and never trust these types.

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      2. Except I really do have it on good authority from someone who went to the meetings (as cited above) that they really were (and are) plotting to do exactly that. I wouldn’t have believed anyone else about this, but–he never ever lied to me about anything, even when he knew that the bad news he was delivering was going to destroy everything about my life that I thought was important, and he’s saved my life several times over.

        The assassinations of alternative medical practitioners and the independent corroborations by others–including a former member of the Bush Administration–clinch it.

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      3. Except I really do have it on good authority from someone who went to the meetings (as cited above) that they really were (and are) plotting to do exactly that. I wouldn’t have believed anyone else about this, but–he never ever lied to me about anything, even when he knew that the bad news he was delivering was going to destroy everything about my life that I thought was important, and he’s saved my life several times over.

        The assassinations of alternative medical practitioners and the independent corroborations by others–including a former member of the Bush Administration–clinch it.

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      4. Here’s a good article published January 2018 in Nature Reviews: Drug Discovery that gives a thorough overview of the state of mRNA vaccine development at the time. Read the paragraph under Safety and right before Conclusions and future directions. Don’t quite believe that after several decades of research and still having unresolved issues regarding coagulation and enhanced endothelial permeability issues, etc they suddenly were able to resolve those side effects in the 2 years leading up to the biggest pandemic in a century. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243

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        1. Note that I said these vaccines had terrible effects before. I simply don’t think they PLANNED the side effects. I.e. those are still beyond them.
          Did they know there would be BAD side effects? Likely. At least the halfway informed ones. Considering how many people ON THE RIGHT should have known that by their profession and training and yet argued with me there were no bad side effects, I think you’re giving the left more intellectual ability than they have.
          Did those who figured it out care if it killed us all? Not a little bit.
          I don’t see why you think you’re enlightening me on this. I KNEW.

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            1. No. Go from the other side: it’s almost impossible for them to know WHAT the side-effects would be and how widespread from the SCIENTIFIC SIDE.
              That they knew there would be side effects, I know. That they didn’t care, I know. But it’s impossible they knew what the side effects would be or how widespread. It could have killed everyone who took it within a year. THEY DIDN’T CARE.
              That’s bad enough without attributing to them knowledge that is impossible for anyone right now.

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    2. One useful way to check if you’re going off the deep end in your theorizing is to say “If that’s true, then I’d expect to see this” and then check your results. For example, if, as you say, “the death toll post shots from ALL CAUSES is now approaching 50%”, then you’d expect to see about half the liberals you know (because nearly 100% of liberals have gotten multiple COVID shots by this point) keeling over. Has that happened? Have you seen about half your liberal acquaintances dying in the past three years? Or do you know anyone who has seen about half the liberals they know dying?

      Personally, I haven’t seen that. I can easily believe that the death toll from the COVID shots is higher than liberals want to acknowledge. But nearly 50%? Nope. It would be impossible to hide that fact if it were true. There would be months-long waiting lists at funeral homes and crematoria (crematoriums?) around the country if the COVID shot had a nearly 50% death toll.

      Or did you mean something else by “death toll approaching 50%”? To me that phrase would mean “close to half of the people who got the COVID shot have died, from one cause or another”, and I see no evidence that that is happening. (And plenty of evidence that it hasn’t). If you meant something else, could you explain?

      This is the problem with having a media that has repeatedly cried wolf. When you can’t trust the media, you end up having to use alternate info sources, some of whom are not all that good at spotting their own mistakes. Not that the media is better at that, but the point is that that number is just not possibly correct. So even though you probably trust the honesty of the person who gave you that number, you should probably start questioning the accuracy of their facts, and double-checking their numbers. Because that person may not be all that good at spotting their own errors.

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      1. Gotta say. I started skipping over when I saw that stat because it looked incomplete. Now, “increase in mortality of 50% over pre-Covid rate” would make me stop and ask, “is that right? I’ve heard there was increased mortality…” and going from (as an example, I don’t have any data at all) 100 deaths per 100, 000 to 150 per 100,000 would be a fifty percent increase without killing off half of any group.

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      4. They aren’t my stats. They’re Steve Kirsch’s stats. You know, the big-time Democrat donor who was tricked into getting the shots, and now is totally pissed off about it and refuses to shut up?

        If you want to argue the stats with someone, GO ARGUE THEM WITH HIM. If you can meet his criteria and qualifications for the challenge, and you can actually poke real holes in his data, he’s also been offering some pretty serious reward money. You can find him on Substack.

        As to what I understand of the death toll personally:
        People that I know HAVE died, and so have many more that I don’t know personally. I see the news articles. They’re posted frequently in certain groups on MeWe and Gab. It’s appalling at times, the sheer volume of the death announcements. If you go to MedicalKidnap (dot) org, there are LISTS of Died Suddenly announcements appended to articles. They go on for many pages, and it’s the stuff of nightmares. Deaths of young people and children, deaths of pregnant women and young mothers. Deaths of people who SHOULD NOT HAVE in any reasonable universe died so suddenly for no reason.

        My own personal death toll includes an uncle who died suddenly and in a manner not consistent with the normal progression of dementia, which was his diagnosis. The progression of his dysfunction appeared to be suddenly put on super-fast-forward, and he spiraled rapidly and then–died.

        A former colleague and very good friend of my parents died from an extremely rare brain infection. He was at Mayo, and they just couldn’t figure it out, how or where he’d caught it. The straws they were clutching for to explain his condition would have been funny if it hadn’t all been so awful.

        There have been others.

        And there have been many more where we’ve seen the symptoms of severe illness emerge post vax. Exotic cancers, the absolute destruction of an immune system, severe cognitive decline, other medical issues.

        In many cases, health issues that were already present were exacerbated and aggravated. In some cases, the costs have been delayed, but are still quite real.

        I’m hearing these reports from friends as well.

        Don’t think that your acquaintance remains untouched. If you aren’t hearing and understanding the actual toll, it’s because you haven’t been listening and paying attention.

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        1. I don’t doubt your experience. It just doesn’t match mine. I know lots of multiply boosted sheeple who are still alive. None have died, of “suddenly” or anything else. Ditto for a large number of cousins and their offspring.

          I do see reports of people in the news who suddenly died.

          I can easily believe that the rate of mortality (either in general or for a particular demographic) is 50% higher than in 2019. Note that this is not the same thing as saying that the number of deaths has gone up by 50 percent.

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          1. There are possible reasons why you personally may be living in a pocket where you don’t know anyone who has died–yet.

            Keep that word “yet” in mind, because it’s pretty important.

            My understanding from reading and listening to the discussions of the scientists and medical personnel who’ve looked into the mRNA COVID shot formulas and had them independently tested is that there are at least three or four basic and very distinct formulations (there may be more sub-variants). One of them is insanely toxic, a so-called “hot lot.” The others have toxic stuff in them with genetic coding that might or might not meet the definition of a timing mechanism with a built in delay.

            There were quality control issues with manufacturing the vaccines. If the doses weren’t manufactured exactly as intended (Big Pharma has been having serious QC issues with manufacturing ever since they outsourced their manufacturing overseas), there are ways that these vaccines can lose their punch that can actually be a good thing, a reprieve of sorts, for the people who got them.

            Then, there’s the temperature issue. The mRNA components of the vaccines have to be kept ridiculously cold and consistently maintained at that temperature thoughout the course of manufacturing, shipping, storage, and right up until the moment the shots are given, or… the mRNA begins to break down. The longer they aren’t at the correct temperature, the more that mRNA breaks down, and the somewhat less toxic the shots become. Shipping and storage, it turns out, have been attended by serious difficulties, and again, this has benefited those on the receiving end of the needle.

            There was early evidence that some states were receiving more hot lots than others. As soon as people started pointing that out on social media, though, then a concerted effort was made to break up those lots and distribute them more widely so that the death tolls would be less remarkable.

            And I think I need to clarify here:

            The death toll we’re talking about isn’t the death toll related to all persons vaxxed and not-vaxxed, and isn’t related to deaths in not-vaxxed people at all, although there have been some utterly unforgivable things done to the not-vaxxed. The death toll we’re talking about here is limited to those who have gotten the vaccines, who’ve often gotten more than one, and in some cases, four or more.

            What you need to look at is ALL CAUSE mortality post-vax aside from a few categories like serious car accidents that can’t reasonably be connected to having been vaccinated–unless the person actually died of a major medical event while behind the wheel. Count them if someone got the vax and then died afterward, whether immediately, a few days or months later, or even a couple of years post-vax.

            The people who represent a significant percentage of the overall mortality totals post-vax are the frail and elderly who were sequestered in nursing homes and forced to get the vaccines along with their medical providers. So–I want to draw your attention specifically to Steve Kirsch’s recent surveys of deaths in nursing homes and retirement homes post-vaxx.

            I want to, most especially, draw your attention to the mortality rates in nursing homes in states and cities under Democrat governors and mayors, because that’s where the lion’s share of the killing pre- and post-shots took place. Sadly, because most of the communities in question are so very large, they tended to rack up the overall death totals in a way that nursing homes wouldn’t do in, say, rural Iowa or Kansas.

            More places to look for deaths in your community:
            * in hospitals post-shot.
            * Among pilots. Pilots dying suddenly keeps causing alarming incidents in flight.
            * Military personnel. The military community has paid a huge price.
            * Federal employees. Biden is the very worst and most tyrannical of problem bosses.
            * Public school teachers.

            About that word, “yet”… Dr. Zelensky, one of the heroes of the early days of COVID who successfully treated thousands of patients warned us before he died of cancer that getting the shots was a death sentence. He was a brilliant man, an absolute genius at saving lives. His research into the vaccines led him to conclude that no matter which shot you got, it contained multiple ways to kill you, all except for the one lot that was a placebo.

            If you get the placebo, nothing happens. But because of the way the shots were parceled out, it can be very challenging to find out whether your lot was a placebo lot. If you got one shot, you had a 1 in 4 chance of having received the placebo.

            If you got more than one shot, the odds of receiving a placebo at least once went up, but–the odds were still much better that you’d receive more than one toxic lot instead.

            Dr. Zelensky insisted passionately that all of the other lots except the placebo were extremely toxic even aside from the mRNA. He insisted that if you get the shots, from the moment you get the first one, your life expectancy would drop to no more than five years.

            The more shots you get, the shorter that life expectancy becomes.

            Now; I want to state for the record that I believe in God, that He is omnipotent and omniscient, and full of compassion, mercy, and grace for us, and that it is entirely in His hands when we die and the manner of our passing. If God chooses to intervene and heal people who’ve been vaccinated and spare their lives, that is indeed within His power and ability to do, and I would be more than relieved to see lots of people outlive Dr. Zelensky’s prognosis and make a liar out of him.

            But I don’t think the stats are trending that way.

            I do, however, think that there are things you can do to detox if you got the shots. I think they’re highly worthwhile to do, that detoxxing can arrest much of the damage and extend your life, and I encourage anyone who hasn’t been working on that to get on it now before it accumulates past the point of no return.

            Where you can receive help if you can’t find it in your local community:
            America’s Frontline Doctors
            FLCCC
            GoldCare

            Effective help in your local community may be found via:
            Functional Medicine practitioners
            Compounding Pharmacies
            Naturopaths
            Natural Health Practitioners
            Licensed Herbalists
            And some (but not all) Registered Dieticians with wholistic practices.

            More info is available at:
            Mercola(dot)com
            ChildrensHealthDefense(dot)org
            ICanDecide(dot)org
            NaturalNews(dot)com
            DeepRootsatHome(dot)com
            NVIC(dot)org

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            1. If there’s any truth in that, we’re headed for a dire shortage of doctors and nurses. They were practically forced to take the shots at gunpoint. The ones who refused got their licenses revoked.

              Not so much the teachers, but having a lot of public-school bureaucrats die off would greatly improve education. What does a school board do, anyway, and why do we need 15,000 of them? Why are the bureaucrats paid 5 times more than the teachers?
              ———————————
              “What’s your secret for living to a hundred?”
              100-year-old man: “Don’t die.”

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              1. We already had a serious shortage of medical personnel before COVID, especially out in the rural areas. Prestigious hospitals in major urban centers can usually afford to pay well enough to attract higher numbers of personnel, but with COVID, the rate of turnover went up quite dramatically.

                There are some states where you definitely don’t want to wind up in the hospital now.

                California, Oregon, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York… I’m sure others could also add to this list.

                I’m not all that at peace about winding up in the hospital for any reason here in Nebraska. Even though we still have better care than in blue states, there are still reasons to be wary–and I wouldn’t trust the hospitals in Omaha much at all at this point, and the ones in Lincoln, I trust very little.

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                1. Er… part of the reason to leave Colorado (though the altitude was killing me anyway as we found in a recent visit) was their assisted suicide law that is as bad as Canada’s…

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              2. A school board is supposed to be a small local group if elected representatives who keep a hairy eye on the superintendent of the district and the teachers. They are supposed to strike a balance between parents and other taxpayers funding the local district.

                Now, do they do this job? Not in all cases.

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  13. Scary thing is that ALL of the so-called “Conspiracy Theories” seem to be coming true. Example:

    When word came out that the NRA was run by a corrupt weasel and his cronies who were siphoning money away from the legal fund to pay for said corrupt weasel’s extravagant lifestyle, and that the NRA’s leadership was rigging elections to keep anyone who wasn’t one of the weasel’s yes-men off of the board of directors, I (and I suspect many others) brushed it off as a paranoid conspiracy theory at best and Leftist propaganda BS at worst.

    Then the financial reports were released and the cronies blatantly mucked with the election rules to keep new blood off the board, and everything was not only proven true, but proven to be worse than most of us imagined.

    At this point, I’m pretty sure “conspiracy theories” should be re-branded as “early-edition news reports.”

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  14. Also, they’re getting bolder and more blatant.

    Witness the Governor of New Mexico, who just signed an executive order banning the lawful carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and, when informed that she doesn’t have the authority to override the Constitution in the name of “public safety,” defiantly insists that yes, she does, so shut up and kneel, peasants!

    The general consensus is that the only reason the authorities aren’t enforcing said ban is because New Mexico got rid of qualified immunity for LEOs in 2021.

    And then you have the Governor of New York throwing her hat into the ring between Disney and Charter Spectrum and ordering Charter Spectrum to refund their customers who can’t watch ESPN… despite the fact that it was Disney who yanked ESPN off of Charter Spectrum’s package without warning. And the only reason the lawsuits aren’t flying is because Disney yielded to all of Charter Spectrum’s demands in that brouhaha.

    Not to mention the ATF going Full Jackboot, various states defying the Supreme Court along with the EPA and the Supreme Court just sitting back and shrugging…

    I hate to say it, but I just don’t see this ending without a whole lot of trees, street signs, lampposts, bridges, etc. getting redecorated. God help us all.

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    1. The US Supreme Court is not “just sitting back and shrugging”. There were a number of cases of landmark importance last year in pushing originalism back to where it needs to be, and restricting the powers of the government. The high court is very definitely making its presence felt right now. It’s not immediately jumping on some of the stuff that the gun grabbers are doing, but that’s because the court wants to give the lower courts a chance to do their thing. The high court has already stepped in on at least one occasion (in New York, iirc) to tell a lower court that was obviously delaying a gun rights case to knock it off and quit dragging its feet.

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      1. True, but OTOH New York and other states have crammed through laws that they admit are blatant “corrections” (read: violations) of the Bruen decision, and rather than immediately handing down injunctions against those new, blatantly and obviously unconstitutional laws, the Supreme Court has said that they “don’t want to interfere int he judicial process,” meaning that we will have to spend years fighting and copious amounts of $$ in the courts AGAIN to get the laws declared unconstitutional.

        Same with the EPA and the “waters of the United States” nonsense: the court smacked the EPA down, the EPA rewrote the rule ever-so-slightly in such a way that still gave then the ability to exceed their authority, thumbed their nose at USSC, and USSC said “we can’t do anything about it.”

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        1. Again, the USSC is allowing the process to work as it’s supposed to. It’s intentionally not stepping in because that’s not the way that the court is supposed to work. However, as I noted above, in at least one instance the USSC has stepped in when it became clear that a lower court was intentionally foot-dragging in what appeared to be an attempt to let the case essentially die without ever being heard.

          Yes, it sucks for those of us who live in the states like California. But the process must be allowed to run its course. I know here in California, the gun cases are still at the lower courts right now, and I don’t think any of them have been appealed to an en banc 9th Circuit panel (unlike other circuits, a 9th Circuit en banc hearing does not include all of the judges in the circuit) yet. So we haven’t had a chance to see just how the en banc 9th Circuit will react. If it flips the bird at the USSC, I have full faith that it will get smacked down. But if it doesn’t, it would be improper for the high court to intervene.

          And no, GVRing an opinion back to Judge Benitez despite the fact that Judge Benitez’s original opinion incorporates the same framework as that found in Bruen doesn’t count as flipping the bird to the high court.

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      2. Contra example: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1181152636/independent-state-legislature-theory-supreme-court-decision

        “The lawmakers contended that the federal Constitution’s provision delegating to state legislatures the power to set the “times, places and manner” of elections means that only the state legislature can make election rules, not courts, and regardless of state constitutional provisions.”

        SCOTUS ignored the actual language of the constitution to allow governors, courts, etc to set last minute election law.

        COVID emergency override: unlocked.

        Also perhaps noteworthy is that the two Justices (Kavanaugh and Barrett) who decided to ignore the Constitution have families with small children…. and mobs / assassins outside the doors.

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  15. If you want to know what the left/Democrats think of the Constitution and the individual liberties it was written to protect just look at New Mexico’s Stalinist dictator governor who declared that she can suspend rights by declaring a “public health emergency”. THAT is what the Democrats intend to do nationally, and have been doing in coordination with their tech and finance oligarch friends.

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      1. A lot of the lefty “push-back” is disingenuous however, as it is very carefully worded to say that a state can’t suspend federal constitutional rights by decree, rather than saying government, which would include the federal as well as state governments, cannot do so. They are clearly leaving open having federal decrees suspend such rights, as some of the leftists pushing back have already done, through declarations of national “gun violence emergencies”, “climate emergencies’, and by declaring “racism”, meaning anything which is contrary to leftist ideology, a “public health emergency”.

        Their goal is to pus the federal regime to make such sweeping declarations, rather than individual governors.

        Very few of the leftist critics are genuine in my view.

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        1. And the pushback from the local sheriff, who also appears to be an avowed Lefty, seems to boil down to “We don’t want to enforce this because you took away our qualified immunity and we know we’ll get our asses sued off if we do try to enforce it. If you hadn’t taken that shield away from us, we’d happily carry out your order, so good going dumbass.”

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          1. “We don’t want to enforce this because you took away our qualified immunity and we know we’ll get our asses sued off if we do try to enforce it.’

            What’s that phrase? “Oft evil will shall evil mar”?

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            1. Right? I am all for removing ALL QI. Sure, I think there need to be some rules/something in place that will penalize those who attempt to abuse the ability to sue cops (frankly, if there were harsher penalties for all forms of egregious lawfare–up to and including jail time for people who knowingly bring false information/accusations/knowingly withhold exculpatory evidence that would help), but…yep. Be held responsible for what you choose to do, particularly when you are in a position of authority/power…

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              1. It is the everlasting disagreement:

                Have Authority, thus need special privileges to execute it. Versus have Authority, thus need special monitoring to prevent improper usage.

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                1. Which ignores the fundamental question: Should they ever be allowed that Authority in the First Place. The Founders said no. And they were wise to do so.

                  I see too many who are hoppy to allow that authority, even if abused, as long as it abuses people they don’t like.

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                  1. Heh. I shouldn’t be surprised that it was an FDR appointee who came up with it. Forget travelling back in time to off the Little Dictator, removing FDR from the chessboard might have saved us a whole lotta damage…

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                    1. Wilson. He is the one who first sought to impose rule by “experts” and the structures of socialism. Add in that he was an overt genuine racist who re-segregated the military, among other offenses against liberty, and that it was his role in creating the post-war order that set the stage for the little dictator and others, he is the one that a time traveler would really want to get.,

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                    2. This is true. Honestly, I’d go with the “why not both?” options, lol. But yeah, Wilson is neck and neck with FDR in my s**t book. Jailing people for speaking out against him and/or WW1 is another of his delightful contributions, which is why when people start black-pilling about “OMG NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC” I’m going “Well…actually…” Although we can’t ignore Wilson 2.0, FDR 2.0, etc forever–the damage was done decades ago, and we don’t need MORE of the same applied. I’m hanging onto the “we win, they lose” thing for all its worth–because at least now, unlike back then, they can’t really hide what they’re doing anymore. Yay, internet!

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      2. I think we’ll see a lot more odd bedfellows as figures on the Left look around, and figure out which side of the purge they’re going to be on.

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          1. Beats me :-) . You didn’t think either of those intellectual giants came up with that did you? Yeah weasel worded and parsed to a fare thee well, Definitely there is a ROUS pushing this response behind the curtain. And no offense meant to rats or capybaras.

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        2. This, So much this. Either that or this is further “Stray Voltage” to distract from something else. The Democrat manipulators are like some inexperienced stage magician trying to redirect our attention. Except they’re so crappy at it we see them palming the card. The question is what are we NOT supposed to see?

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  16. I seem to recall that you’ve used the term “prospiracy” in the past. And I think your definition of a prospiracy exactly fits the systematic, top-to-bottom, widespread, death-of-a-million-cuts fraud that carried the 2020 election to Biden. It took a few Democrat Party leaders to insinuate that they’d look the other way if everyone did what they could, by whatever means possible, to ensure that Trump didn’t get as many ballots counted as his opponent. And then everyone in their camp ran with it.

    By the way, wild turkeys do fly. Seeing a bird that big thundering up from the ground unexpectedly the first time will make you jump out of your panties (or boxers.)

    You don’t want a coin tossed to land on its edge. Not unless you want to spend the rest of the day listening to the thoughts of everyone around you. *

    I really want to be there when a Leftist discovers “The Arrow of History” is really a tack on the chair they just sat on.

    DON’T PANIC!

    Stay cool. Keep your guns and ammo where you can reach them in the dark. And don’t forget to bring your towel.

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      1. It’s not part of the formal definition, but most people think of “flying birds” as those that don’t go “splat” when they hit the ground. Turkeys (and chickens, and their relatives like grouse) can’t get high enough under their own power to go “splat.” Drop them out the door at 100 or so feet, though…

        This is the same informal definition that accords the Wright brothers the accolade of building the first “flying machine.” Many people before them had gotten off the ground – but they were the first ones to not splatter the landscape at the end.

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          1. Only time I got nervous when flying wasn’t the take off, or being thousands of feet in the air, it was the landing. Not a lot of wiggle room – and the pilot is figuring out how high they are by judging the angle from what they see out the cockpit window.

            (Although I did have some concern the one time I was looking straight down at the Arch when coming into St. Louis…)

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            1. I have been at the controls of an aircraft (more than once..) and while ground taxiing has issues (the controls are NOT like a motorcar, no sir) and takeoff can have issue, general flight is ALMOST trivial. But deciding to aim at the ground and almost, but not quite, miss is… unnerving. For me, anyway.

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              1. Several PC flight simulators, including Microsoft’s, are pretty good emulations of takeoff and landing. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I crashed, or had to go round when I started them.

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          2. Not just controlled landings, but controlled flight in general.

            There’s a story about Wilbur Wright’s first demonstration flight in Europe. He made a banking turn, and the audience screamed, terrified that he was going to crash. Then he made another banking turn, and the audience realized that he was doing it on purpose.

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        2. Oh, I’ve seen turkey’s high enough to “splat” I’ve seen them perched on the upper branches of over 100 foot white pines. And shaken my head wondering how the heck they got up there.

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            2. -Wild- turkeys are rather smart birds, and extremely wary, which is why hunting them is such a challenge.

              -Domestic- turkeys are inbred moronic meatsacks.

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              1. Wild turkeys here in southern NH aren’t the smartest beasts though. They’re too accustomed to humans and go from one housing development to another via the wooded corridors. Been times that I’ve had more than 30 birds in the yard, and they don’t do much if I step outside. Of course, if I’m feeling frisky, I’ll open the door fast and run after them, and then watch as the air is filled with BIG birds. But for hunting? I usually fill my tag stepping out on the back porch. And the hardest part is waiting for the flocks to break up enough so I only shoot one, and not several at once. (NH F&G gets really upset if you take more than one per season.)

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        3. Wild turkey are strong short-range flyers.

          Domestic turkeys, overbread for taste and meat, are so deformed they can barely make what amount to kinetic jumps.

          The WKRP scenario was definitely domestic variety, that are as aerodynamic as feathered meat sacks.

          In other words

          THUD

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      3. Turkeys (wild ones, not the domesticated chonky beasts we turn into Thanksgiving dinner) can fly (some) and will roost in branches to avoid predators. Their flying is more a “falling with style” controlled glide, more akin to a sugar glider or a flying squirrel than what we think of as classical bird flight. Not sure what would happen with a wild turkey dropped in WKRP fashion, don’t want to experiment as I dislike cruelty to animals :-) . Domesticated turkeys would almost certainly suffer the fate as portrayed on WKRP in Cincinnati

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        1. The Turkey we hit in northern Mississippi while I was an engineering undergrad could certainly fly. It launched and we hit it with the starboard side windshield as it was still climbing. They are aviators in the class of Eagles, but they can fly when they need to.

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          1. I didn’t say they couldn’t fly I said they didn’t fly well ;-) . It’s a bit like Jigglypuff doing dance of the sugar plum fairy (but slightly more graceful).

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              1. Fair enough the few times I’ve seen them fly to get up to somewhere high its labored with a lot of flapping. Down is more of a glide almost pretty except its kind of a blob of a bird flying. Of course the couple times I’ve seen large raptors (Eagles, Red Tail Hawks, Turkey Buzzards) it isn’t pretty either. Once the raptors get aloft and find an updraft though it gets pretty sharp looking even for the Turkey Buzzards.

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        2. Wild toms have pretty sharp claws and beaks as well as nasty spurs on the backs of their legs. And if you’ve ever been hit by a wild turkey wing buffet, you’d going to know it. Every couple of years, we have a fatality from wild turkey’s here in NH. Usually a motorcyclist having one fly into them as they’re going down the road. Although I seem to recall one case where the turkey FODed through the windshield of a car; can’t remember if that was in NH or another state though.

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    2. Wild Turkeys can hit 45-50 mph. Thasalotta meat flinging about the air.Domestice White turkeys well fed can’t fly for beans or at all depending on bread. Feral Whites can get into trees and what, and Legacy breeds can fly a bit, buy “WKRP” was using white domestic birds

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  18. I lean towards the “prospiracy” side of things, especially on the election fraud (as honest as a $13 bank note and as naked as Lady Godiva on the front of it)—largely because of the logistics needed to actively coordinate the emergency ballot-stuffers in all the swing-states on the same night. They just preemptively front-loaded the ballot-counting offices with True Believers whom they could count on to Do The Right Thing to fortify the election from Trump. As to COVID? I think it was a convergence of Mr. Trump’s noted germophobia and Herr Fauci’s comorbid Messiah-complex and Münchausen-by-Proxy (I think it was Caroline Furlong who pointed out the latter symptoms). But both were enabled by a cultural philosophy (mostly but not wholly on the Left) that pretends to agnosticism about what truth even is anymore.

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    2. Um…. That was almost for sure coordinated, but it would only take ONE phone call to each place.
      OTOH the machines are indeed crooked, and that is a single point. A prospiracy maybe, but a very intentional one.

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  19. Sarah, I find you are often prescient. We’re being gaslighted, censored, and oppressed by forces we don’t control. When we do assert control, we’re going to need voices of moderation, as given my way, we’d have some “excesses”.

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  20. Sarah, I find you are often prescient. We’re being gaslighted, censored, and oppressed by forces we don’t control. When we do assert control, we’re going to need voices of moderation, as given my way, we’d have some “excesses”.

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  21. There’s hope, when a major-city DA and the county sheriff say they’ll ignore the illegal (because a violation of both the state and US Constitutions, which they also acknowledged) “executive health order” from the leftist governor. In a BLUE STATE. Cracks are definitely forming; keep your powder dry…

    (BTW, for some reason my ability to post disappeared and I had to re-apply. WPDE?)

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    1. I’ve been having to “re-login” for each comment for a week or three now. It’s rather annoying. And I’ve set the AtH and WP sites as exceptions to tracker blocking, even.

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      1. I’ve been having to re-login on all the Hunnish WP blogs (here, MGC, and Cat Rotator) for every comment for the last 3+years. I frankly thought it was normal. Admittedly, I log in on multiple devices during any given day.

        So far, the biggest change I’ve seen is that instead of automatically showing fields for e-mail, name, and site, it shows 3 icons (WP, FB, and e-mail) and requires me to pick one.

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          1. It’s the first time I’ve had to re-login since I first registered here, back in, IIRC, 2019. And I have to do it again today. WPDE indeed.

            Just a thought, though; I always had to provide my email and nym, but it was never referred to as “logging in”, and there were no options regarding method, just two fields. Maybe just a format change?

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          1. I can no longer comment or log in on my older computer. At all. I have to use the newer unit, which is a real pain in the [rump] as far as posting excerpts. They are all on the older machine.

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      1. I get odd action from the main site and only use Reader now. ferinstance on the main site, yes, every new opening of the site, and for a while the upper bar did nothing but work to open Reader. Clicking the bell only dropped an empty space. Now if I click the bell I go to a new page, not the drop-down of replies and notifications, which when checking something while composing a reply erases the reply box text.
        MGC has other actions (able to like without logging in, and the bar never showing if “logged in” is one)
        WPDE

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    3. Eh… the county sheriff’s letter more or less (not blatant, but reading between the lines) that he’s “reluctant to enforce the order” because the Governor got rid of qualified immunity back in 2021 and he knows he’ll get his pants sued off if he does try to enforce it.

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      2. I don’t know about the letter, but in th evideo he didn’t waffle at all; he was adamant that the EO was unconstitutional, and that therefore he wouldn’t enforce it.

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        1. I excerpts I’ve seen reported on (probably out of context, usually) read like “well it isn’t my fault me and mine have lost our policing qualified immunity”, subtext “it is yours”, “so this police force isn’t enforcing anything unconstitutional that will get us sued individually, and individually financially responsible for. We don’t get paid enough to be stupid.”

          But that is just how I perceive what the sheriff meant.

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          1. As another said (perhaps elsewhere) it’s amazing how suddenly law-abiding law “enforcement” becomes when the law can be rightly enforced right on them – as it ought be.

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          2. The latest interesting development is that the NM AG, Raul Torrez, says he will not defend the guv in any of the 6 lawsuits filed against her (so far); hope she has deep pockets…

            So, guv, it was:
            Shoot self in foot.
            Bite off foot.
            Find that foot is more than you can chew.

            Popcorn time! :-)

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    4. All the comments, especially those from journolist, say States can’t do this. unstated is the belief that the Feds can. This stupid woman got out ahead of the Overton window that’s the only reason we’re seeing any pushback at all.

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        1. Sure, but wait until they gin up another “emergency” and take on emergency powers.

          I hold that the issue is not the suspension of rights, but that it was an action of the state, not the Feds. You can’t have the states doing what they want after all, you get Florida and Texas compared to California then. Nope, all must do as they’re told by the SCIENCE, interpreted by the high priests of SCIENCE in DC.

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  22. I don’t get the hate hate for Cassandra: she tried warning folks, it wasn’t her fault nobody believed her.

    I gotta go look up the context of that Heinlein quote.

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    1. “A fake fortune teller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.”

      –The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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      1. I don’t understand either. I’d have loved advance warning IF there was anything I could do to avoid disaster.
        But if it’s all set in stone…sigh. No, don’t wanna know when I’m gonna die.

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        1. On reflection, I think a lot of people are confusing Cassandra’s situation with that of the black pill doomers who say ruin and disaster are inevitable, there’s nothing we can do about it, there’s no hope (I’ve been guilty of doomposting).

          In the actual myth, Cassandra was warning people of what was coming when there was time to do something about it – she flat out tells the Trojans there are people hiding in that horse – but I guess she couldn’t produce a peer-reviewed study to back it up.

          Reminds me of Gandalf: he got kicked around somewhat in the books because people assumed he brought trouble with him, when the trouble was coming anyway and Gandalf was the one showing up to warn them.

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          2. The myth varies but most agree the god Apollo was the one to gift her with prophecy because he wanted to make her his lover. Some myths say she either insultingly rejected him, or she requested the gift of prophecy as a prerequisite to sleeping with him then refused to fulfill her end of he deal, in either case greek gods are petty stupid jerks but still strictly honor a no-backsies policy. He didn’t remove her prophetic powers but cursed her so no one would ever believe her prophecies. Not being believed when you’re right it called Cassandra syndrome. If you’ve ever had to tell a kid not to stick something sharp and in the electric socket because it’ll hurt, or a leftist that they’re ideas won’t work and will lead to a horrible amount of human death and suffering-and they insisted on doing it anyway, congratulations you’re a victim of Cassandra syndrome.

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        2. Agreed. I think RAH’s comment was predicated on not being able to do anything about it. That was sort of evident in “Life-Line”; Dr. Pinero couldn’t avert his own death even though he knew it was coming.

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  23. conspiracy, a prospiracy — an uncoordinated group of people each doing what he/she thinks should be done for “the cause” would suffice.

    PROSPIRACY! Thank you, Sarah! I had heard the term used once before by Robert Barnes but wasn’t sure I heard it correctly or how to spell it and had been searching for it ever since. Thanks again!

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  24. While I have to agree about the whole “conspiracy” thing I’m also thinking that we are on the edge of something that will happen very soon. Life is just sort of plugging along and then one day – oops, the whole social / political thing just imploded.

    Several years back I was at a training session for law enforcement types from local small town departments, state agencies and even the FBI were there. One guy I worked with at this event was from an area department and had come to America from Kosovo in the Balkan region and had gone through the insanity there. One of his observations was how fast it got crazy. Example: On the weekend the electric in his town went out and it was still out on Monday and all the neighbors were helping each other trying to cope with it. On Tuesday the water went out and those with ‘extra’ were sharing. On Wednesday local authorities declared all supplies were to be turned in and by Thursday there was no more sharing but theft and people defending what they had. Thursday it was neighbor against neighbor and by nightfall Friday shots were being fired and local conditions were chaos. The week end now had roving bands of militia, military, bandit and refuges all against each other and toss in snipers who shot at everybody. He told me it was stunning how fast it went from years of being friends and neighbors to being enemies and fighting over anything and everything – it happened in only a few days.

    This was back about six seven years ago and he was feeling the “start” of something here like it did there and was spooked about it then. I also had a chance to work with a group of prison staff from Kosovo who were adopting some American methods for running prisons and were gathering ideas and curriculum to take home. They too said the whole war just sort of exploded into existence overnight and became very violent without warning.

    We are now in the stage where anything can happen and most any theory, conspiring or not, has a bit of truth in it and everyone best prepare. Oh, thanks also to those commenting as you all make me think from different perspectives. Thanks too for our host and her insights.

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    1. “Though the god slumbered, its merest dream maintained its dominion, for it was attended by priests who never guessed at its existence. It had a church that did not seem to be a church, had a religion that did not know it was a religion, and had followers that prayed to other gods, or to no god at all. Years passed while it awakened—but when it finally roused, men leaped to serve it, though they thought they served only themselves. For this is the power of the god of dust and ashes: to weave the lives of its followers so that the fabric thus created has a pattern none of them intend.

      “AND THERE CAME a day when the god of dust and ashes raised up its hammer … The hammer was lifted piecemeal, and each piece was a person, and to each person the god of dust and ashes whispered: “This do for me, and receive in payment your fondest desire.” Each person, each piece said yes, and in so saying became the hammer.”

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    2. “how fast it went from years of being friends and neighbors to being enemies and fighting over anything and everything”

      Depends on your definition of friends. A friend is someone who has your back, no matter what the conditions. There are only two people in town that qualify for me. There are a bunch of people who I consider allies on the conservative side, but only a couple of them could be relied on for quid pro quo when the SHTF. I can be “civil” with those of non-conservative political ideology; but those are NOT friends, and likely will be among the takers during any emergency. If things go south, and they show up, and say they are there to collect and consolidate for the benefit of everyone, I will execute them. Why? Because if I say no, they’ll come back with enough to take anyway.

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      1. No disagreement from me – the Serbian I spoke to said it was really amazing how families that had lived next door to one another for generations and even had marriage between them overnight became the enemy. A lot had to do with religion but many people that lived through it said that was an excuse not a reason. Friendship was tested and found wanting for many then. Being Europe and the Balkans I sort of get it. Here now, in America, it is a lot different socially and with our very different culture. Point still is when it happens it is really fast.

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        1. Keep in mind Serbo Croatia is one of those special places in the world. Meaning that they know as normal involves a lot of low level war.
          So will we get bad? If things fall apart, yes. Serbo-Croatia bad? Oh, dear Lord no. Culture matters.

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  25. Speaking of Conspiracy Theories, submitted for your amusement if for nothing else. No doubt this will be on a future episode of ‘Ancient Aliens’.

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        1. Hunter indictments?

          Aliens would be a great emergency to unite the people under strong, central guidance. We could have a short, victorious fake war to take the people’s mind off their problems.

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          2. I find it VERY INTERESTING that the folks who have the job or hobby of watching skies tend NOT to see UFO’s and/or encounter aliens. Why? They can ID various things, thus no ‘U’ – and often no ‘F’ either.

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        2. Why? Fear.

          Per Nathan Bedford Forrest: “Keep up the skeer!” (scare)

          The left -thrives- on fear and doubt. -Anything- to keep folks uncomfortably off balance will do. The whole “New Mexico Gun Ban” might just be that – make the opposition fearful that they are next, or that the balloon is about to go up.

          Some of the UFO folks are one dropped mixing bowl away from total freakout.

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    2. Bah. It’s either a hoax, or a deformed human. That homunculus makes zero sense as a sentient species that evolved completely independent of life on Earth. It is both too humanoid, and too perfectly situated in the Uncanny Valley.

      Aliens have to fit into an alien ecology somewhere, and they have to be the culmination of billions of years of natural selection. They have to be survivors. That critter doesn’t look like he could survive a frat party.
      ———————————
      Susan Ivanova: “You’re saying just because I’m holding this right now, I’m Green Leader? But I’m human!”

      Former Green Leader: “Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention aliens. Rules change…caught up in committee. Not come through yet.”

      Susan: “Bureaucracy. Ya gotta love it.”

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  27. I don’t know if you’ve written any conspiracy theories on the blog, but there is a Sarah D’Almeida that has written books of them. Any relation?

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      1. Yes, that’s it. The ones about the small clique of toxically masculine white gun nuts and an implausible cabal within the Catholic Church.

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  28. I was just told about The Fourth Turning. I’m now reading it. Philosophically, I dislike it very much; far too predestination/psychohistory-ish for my taste. Factually, it’s fairly compelling – or at least presented that way.

    Super-short version: We’re stuck in four-phase cycling history. At the moment, we’re in a phase four, in which things get progressively worse until it all blows up and the cycle starts again.

    War of the Roses (commented upon above) was also a phase four. He goes through several of the cycles. Since they are about 100 years long, it very quickly exceeds my knowledge of history. It’s very difficult for me to tell what’s plausible and what’s cherry-picking, but it sounds not-insane.

    According to the theory, the current cycle will not end until around 2030 (again, short version). We have four or five more years of deepening insanity to put up with before the big blowup that ends the cycle. Joy.

    The comment thing has changed a lot. I’m already logged in (which is unusual, but not unheard of) and have three slider-toggle things instead of checkboxes.

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  29. Any chance of eventually getting more tales of the toxically masculine white hoplophiles vs. the even more improbable vampire conspiracy? I know I must be in the minority in waiting for another of that one as opposed to the cozy mystery and sci-fi fans.

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    1. Yes. I need to get off my cycle of illness (TM) which to be fair, is getting less debilitating SLOWLY. Apparently getting over high altitude issues takes times, when you went through 30 years of them. Who knew?
      And I need to finish assembling bookshelves and unpacking my library.
      I dreamed I was collaborating with my godson on a Shakespeare mystery series. (I need to tell his mom.) Only one problem. He’s about 1 year old….

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